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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
prepared a business plan, conducted a usability analysis, and tested the product with thirty HBS students. Currently, he is patenting the methodology. With a post-HBS job at the private equity investment firm TSG Capital Group already...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with local sponsors, Lotus hosts monthly breakfasts for investors and female founders—a time of day more compatible with family View Details
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
Henderson says. “It can also help companies rethink their role in society and the power they have to make a difference in ways that go beyond fi nding business opportunities.” Participants set their own schedules during the interactive...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
goggles. “You need to be able to see a wall, and react, before you hit it,” he explains. Because DRL provides broadcast-ready content to networks, it helps that Horbaczewski has a background in film production and special effects....
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
his MBA, Sagansky spent a year as an analyst at CBS in New York before heading to the West Coast, where he worked at NBC and then with an independent production company. In 1982, he found himself back at NBC's Burbank facility, in charge...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
to offer the personalized and consistent experience the cofounders imagined. Customers can now schedule delivery online in three to ten days (down from six weeks) and within a four-hour window. “We were able to do this because we had our...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
team up with partners.” That could mean well-established figures like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, in addition to influencers and creators like Huda Kattan, whose show, Huda Boss, streams on Facebook Watch; Kattan can then sell her View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
enamel-on-board scenes from photographs that he’s taken. “I made a decision at age 20 that I did not want to be tied to any schedule by the time I was 50,” he recalls. “My strategy was to put myself in financial and time-flexibility...
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Personal Services
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
demographic. “That’s an important example,” Gelman says, “because it shows that analytics can change how companies identify opportunities, build content and products that relate to people, and find ways to benefit both customers and the...
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Deborah Blagg
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
couple of students to help me sort out how new technology is affecting their lives at HBS. Immediately, they mention the Course Platform (see sidebar below). This wondrous-sounding intranet for the HBS community contains not only their course syllabi, daily assignment...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12...
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- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
breakneck production schedule that saw Spielberg agreeing to the project in early March, with Meryl Streep (as Katharine Graham) and Tom Hanks (as Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee) signing on as...
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- 24 Aug 2017
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Unlocking Potential
invests in programs that merge education with workforce development and help low-income youth prepare for sustainable, productive careers. After starting at HBS in 2011, Anderson interned at Next Street, a Roxbury-based merchant bank that...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
deep was the Rainbow Fish, scheduled for completion by a Hong Kong–based startup sometime in the future but perennially delayed, it appeared. Vescovo realized he would have to build his own. In May 2015, Vescovo approached Patrick Lahey,...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Fifteen years ago, while Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) was a student at HBS, he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Harbus, about his observation that the student body’s social View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page